Recommended Readings

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Trauma/Attachment

  • The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma by Laurence Heller, PhD, and Brad J. Kammer, LMFT, LPCC
  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

Eating Disorders/Body Image

  • Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by Jenni Schaefer
  • When Food Is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth

Substance Use/Addiction

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté, MD

Emotional Awareness

  • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and The Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown, PhD, MSW

Perfectionism

  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown, PhD, MSW

 Relationships/Communication

  • Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection by Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD, and John Gottman, PhD

Obsessive Thinking/OCD

  • The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts by Lee Baer, PhD